In a coincidence I read these comments at reddit a minute before I saw your comment. They were in in a thread for "Joe Manchin missed a furious call from Biden after sinking his $2 trillion spending bill on live TV and turning his phone off".
As shit as he is, Manchin caucusing with the Dems at least ensures that we can get judges and other appointments through. If he caucused with the Republicans, we never would have gotten Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson or hundreds of other judges, and never would have progressed to floor debate on numerous bills. Electing more democrats in other seats is the key. Make it so it doesn’t matter if Manchin is a Republican or a Democrat.
This is the way.
Other people in that thread are saying similar stuff. Because of this year's elections - the libs are now in their instinctive "we gotta vote" mode. And they can't even bring themselves to say Manchin is garbage. And their arguments don't even make sense.
"If he caucused with the Republicans... we never would have progressed to floor debate on numerous bills."???
So fucking what. Debating bills isn't power. It's fucking debate club power pretend cosplay.
In a coincidence I read these comments at reddit a minute before I saw your comment. They were in in a thread for "Joe Manchin missed a furious call from Biden after sinking his $2 trillion spending bill on live TV and turning his phone off".
Other people in that thread are saying similar stuff. Because of this year's elections - the libs are now in their instinctive "we gotta vote" mode. And they can't even bring themselves to say Manchin is garbage. And their arguments don't even make sense.
"If he caucused with the Republicans... we never would have progressed to floor debate on numerous bills."???
So fucking what. Debating bills isn't power. It's fucking debate club power pretend cosplay.